The question, What is God? has always stirred the thought of civilized men. Superficial answers have never satisfied those who search for deeper meanings of Deity than the ones offered by ancient beliefs and dogmas. In order to understand God and to answer satisfactorily for oneself this profound question, Mary Baker Eddy explains the necessity of rising from material inconsistency to spiritual consistency.
In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, Mrs. Eddy states (p. 5): "The ever-recurring human question and wonder, What is God? can never be answered satisfactorily by human hypotheses or philosophy. Divine metaphysics and St. John have answered this great question forever in these words: 'God is Love.' This absolute definition of Deity is the theme for time and for eternity; it is iterated in the law of God, reiterated in the gospel of Christ, voiced in the thunder of Sinai, and breathed in the Sermon on the Mount."
The fact that God is Love is proved in human experience in the manifestation of such qualities as tenderness, compassion, pure affection, and goodness. Through Christian Science we gain clearer views of Love as God and God as Love and thereby rise to higher manifestations of the identifying qualities of God and His perfect expression, man and the universe.
